Note 1. Lived on Covell St. in Victor, New York at time of his death.
Note 2. Bolivar was a Deacon in the Universalist Church of Victor. On 1907 he wrote "A History of Universalism in Victor and Vicinity:, it was 40 pages long and was "written to celebrate the centennial of Universalist preaching in Victor and the semi-centennial of the dedication of the present church building". From Victor The History of a Town, by Lewis F. Fisher, 1996.
Note 3. Bolivar was Town Supervisor of Victor from 1880-1882. Source: Victor: The History of a Town.
Note 4. Bolivar was actively involved in Ellis family genealogy, and knew in the early part of the 20th century that he was descended from Lt. John Ellis and Elizabeth Freeman. It is believed that some or all of his research notes were lost in a fire. Source: Research notes received from Patricia Geisler, notes probably belonged to Kathi Boice, who may have been descended from William Ellis, brother of Samuel Ellis, Bolivar's grandfather.
Note 5. The following appears in "History of Ontario County New York" edited by George S. Conover, Compiled by Lewis Cass Aldrich, published 1893. Page 63 of Family Sketches:
Ellis, Bolivar. Victor, was born in Victor, February 25, 2833. He was educated in the public Schools, and in early life was a farmer, surveyor and conveyancer many years. Has been supervisor of his town three years, and justice of the peace Twenty-four years. In the fall of 1882 he was elected county clerk and served three years. Was also loan commissioner three years. Mr. Ellis is a member of Milnor Lodge No., 139 F. & A. M., and has been its master for some years. He is a member of the Excelsior Chapter No. 164 R. A. M. of Canandaigua, and of Munroe commandery K.T. No. 12 of Rochester. June 30, 1874, he married Frances M., daughter of Jacob L. and Joannah (Farr) Lobdell, of victor, and they have one daughter, Isabel. Mr. Ellis' father, Henry, was born in the town of Florida, Montgomery County, December 10, 1798, and was a farmer. December 29, 1823 he married Isabel Bennett, of Duanesburg, Schenectady County, and came to Victor April 5, 1824. They had six children, four survive: Nancy M., married Thomas C. Turner (now deceased); Jane E., who married James B. North (deceased), Bolivar and Daniel. Mr. Ellis's father, Samuel, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. The ancestry of the family is Welsh and Scotch. Mr. Ellis is one of the deacons in the Universalist Church.
Note 6. Bolivar must have been a popular family member, as his grand neice, Mary Keating (Tuner), recalls her mother, Elizabeth Ellen Turner (Keating), speaking often, and fondly, of Uncle Bolivar.
Note 7. Bolivar apparently responded to a "request for Ellis family" information put out by the author of the book "Descendants of Richard Ellis, the first settler of Ashfield Massachusetts", Bolivar's name appears in the section in the back of that book, called Other Ellis families.